Renowned Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour died

Rupali Pruthi

Dec 2, 2014 15:34 IST

Acclaimed Egyptian novelist and educator Radwa Ashour died on 30 November 2014 in Cairo after a long battle with cancer. She was 68.

Radwa Ashour• Born in Cairo in 1946, Ashour obtained her Ph.D. in African-American literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. • She chronicled her fight against cancer in her novel Heavier than Radwa which was set against the turbulent days of Egypt's revolution. • She wrote more than fifteen books, the best-known of which is the Granada trilogy, which chronicles the rise and fall of Arab civilization in Spain. • Ashour won multiple awards including the Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature in 2007 and the Owais Prize in 2011.

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